Time flies. Three weeks planned for "Anyone there???? Making your Making Your Online Sessions Effective” are about to end. However, we have still a few thing to share with you.
SUMMARY WEEK 3
Our focus this week was on the thread 2. Technology works - what's next?, which is a part of “Anyone there?” wiki.
We were wondering how to convert visuals to make them "online friendly"? What is the perfect number of slides?
They say...counting slides is a wrong approach.
"The number is not important. To be concerned with the number of slides shows that our head is in the wrong place. Because...it is the wrong question to ask."
(G. Reynolds, in the Presentation Zen blog)
You agreed ... and added: design visuals wisely.
“Better to choose or design instructional visuals wisely.” (Pat)
Moreover...design wisely for non-native speakers.
“Use more graphics and animations: they need no translation. Use simple , short, but full sentences in slides. Upload your speaker notes / slides onto web and give the link in the beginning of the session - people can use google translate to follow your presentation better.” (Vesa)
We collected together some interesting references too, see the “Resource” section for that. And we DID notice wikis growing in content.
Evaluation
As we said at the beginning of this session, we count on any participation, so being a post writer or a silent reader was welcome. We are also curious to know how many silent readers were out there. We ask you to fill the shortest survey ever. It consists of 3 questions only. And you do not have to login to fill it in. You may leave your comment too if you wish so. The link is here:
Friday afternoon seems perfect to answer “How do you feel?” question, so please do it today!
Live Session and the Recording
We hope you enjoyed the live session as much as we did. Thank you for waking up so early or breaking your work for us! You are great teacher guys. We need a Lithuanian-Dutch synchronous revision to check if the knowledge stayed. Who could not make it today, needs to be satisfied with the recording only. There are some good examples, collaboration, and discussion though (see the text chat log attached). We say, it is worth watching. The link is here:
http://mt204.sabameeting.com/GP/main/0000014f8b9a0000013a30818fa08200
Wikispaces
We were working in Moodle but actually the wikis are accessible outside of this environment. You may check it using the link below:
http://calmet12.wikispaces.com/
You may edit this wiki as a guest. Or login and drop your ideas using your name and ID.
As the ideas are still popping up, please use wiki and forum at your convenience. We will add Erik’s tip about using polls as synchronous and asynchronous activity. Thanks for sharing it today.
Thank you all for “Being there!!!”
Enjoy ongoing and next CALMet Online sessions.
Vesa & Maja